The Chronicle of the American Condition

Posts categorized "The Stupid! The Stupid!"

Feb 07, 2010

Yeah. Someone of presidential timbre is "FABulous"! We do indeed look for fabulousness in our leaders. Simply fabulous!

MORRIS: You know, I think Sarah
Palin was fabulous during the campaign. I'm not one of those that think
she hurt the ticket. I think she gave McCain a lead for three weeks,
and that was terrific. And I think the stuff she's doing now with the
tea parties and everything is fabulous.

Jan 13, 2010

The U.S. government response should be bold and decisive. It must
mobilize U.S. civilian and military capabilities for short-term rescue
and relief and long-term recovery and reform. President Obama should
tap high-level, bipartisan leadership. Clearly former President
Clinton, who was already named as the U.N. envoy on Haiti, is a logical
choice. President Obama should also reach out to a senior Republican
figure, perhaps former President George W. Bush, to lead the bipartisan
effort for the Republicans.

Aug 08, 2009

I guess their philosophy is to lie - but do it in such an outrageous way that their goon followers will be shocked into believing it. If Sarah's looking for evil, she can see it from her bathroom - in the mirror.

In a new posting on her Facebook account, former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) made a dire statement about health care reform -- that it could result in an Obama-created "death panel" killing her infant son with Down Syndrome:

The America I know and love is not one in which my parents
or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's
"death panel" so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective
judgment of their "level of productivity in society," whether they are
worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.

People who read know there's no such thing as a "level of productivity in society" clause in any of this. In fact, the whole idea of this health care reform is to provide insurance for everyone. Remember?

How did that message get mangled? And who's going to unmangle it? Sorry, Rahm...I gotta say it. Push back hard on this, Dems. DO something.

And if Sarah wants to see government make life or death decisions, she needs to see how seniors are monitored in Florida. Back in the deep red days there, we had to move my mom out of there because the state demanded she be placed in a Florida 24-hour care facility - which is the very definition of a "death panel."

May 01, 2009

Clearly, opposition to doing something about climate change has fallen
back to a new position: claims that attempting to limit greenhouse gas
emissions would be incredibly costly. Yet the most careful studies,
like the big MIT study of Congressional proposals, find only modest costs. Pay no attention, say the critics.

Here’s the key graf in which Samuelson tries to deny the results of the studies:

The trouble is that these models embody wildly
unrealistic assumptions: There are no business cycles; the economy is
always at “full employment”; strong growth is assumed, based on past
growth rates; the economy automatically accommodates major changes — if
fossil fuel prices rise (as they would under anti-global-warming laws),
consumers quickly use less and new supplies of “clean energy” magically
materialize.

Apr 24, 2009

"The Democrats had long labeled the
impeachment debate a distraction from the urgent business of a great
nation. But the Republicans argued that the pursuit of justice is the
business of a great nation. In winning this point, they caught the
falling flag, producing a triumph for the rule of law, a reassertion of
the belief that no man is above it, and a rebuke for an arrogance that
had grown imperial." - Peggy Noonan, December 21. 1998.

"It’s
hard for me to look at a great nation issuing these documents and
sending them out to the world and thinking, ‘Oh, much good will come of
that.’ Sometimes in life you want to keep walking… Some of life has to
be mysterious." -Peggy Noonan, April 19, 2009.

This little comment from Peg on ABC's This Week is shaping up to be her downfall. It's time for her to stick her fingers in her ears and say "La la la la" all the way into oblivion.

Apr 15, 2009

Update at 12:05 p.m. ET: Obama calls Tax Day "an
important opportunity for those of us in Washington to consider our
responsibility to the people who sent us here and who pay the bills."

He
touts his payroll tax cut, which he campaigned on and which started
showing up in paychecks April 1, as "the most progressive tax cut in
American history." Obama says the tax cut "will reach 120 million
families and put $120 billion directly into their pockets, and it
includes the most American workers ever to get a tax cut."

Yeah. Look at your paychecks. Unless you're docked for taking today off for this bullshit, of course.

Mar 31, 2009

Swear to God, one of my pals who I try to avoid talking politics with said that.

My response: Really? Then why would he want to take over a crapbucket of a company like GM? Trust me, he doesn't want GM. He knows he'd be better off opening a restaurant or going the MLM route. But hell no, not GM.

Now if he wanted to take over Haliburton/KBR and fire all of their management, I'd be all over that...

Mar 26, 2009

We made note of this in our live coverage of the Obama town hall meeting, which was unceremoniously interrupted by Boehner, Cantor and a parade of GOP blowhards who were supposedly going to unveil THEIR budget plan...which they never did. They only used the time to do a hatchet job on Obama and Pelosi.

We also noted that around ten minutes into this display of white-hot anger and name-calling, Contessa Brewer of MSNBC cut in to make note of the fact that they weren't giving any solutions as they had promised - and they never returned to them.

How in God's name did they get so horrible at golden opportunities like this? Instead of showing America they really want to fix this mess, they instead put on a complain clinic. Just unbelievably stupid.

Mar 11, 2009

CLASSIC FAIL. Judicial Watch tried to smear Nancy Pelosi with a fairy tale about her demanding to use military aircraft for her personal use and got a snootful of documents under the Freedom of Information Act to try to prove it.

ABC News got the info dump. The result? Not a goddamned thing. Except, oh...that Dennis Hastert DID abuse the privilege.

As we said. CLASSIC conservative fail.

The treasure trove of documents obtained by Judicial Watch from the
Department of Defense regarding Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's use
of military aircraft doesn't seem to prove the organization's
allegation that Pelosi has made "unprecedented demands" for the
flights.

In fact, it appears that Pelosi uses military aircraft less
often than her predecessor, former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.

The documents cover the period from January 2007 to November
2008 and show that Pelosi made the equivalent of 20 round-trips between
Washington (Andrews Air Force Base) and San Francisco. That's an
average of less than one round-trip per month. In contrast, former
Speaker Hastert traveled home to his Illinois district virtually every
weekend and, his former aides tell ABC News, he would almost always
travel on military aircraft. Like Hastert, Pelosi also occasionally
leads Congressional delegations on foreign trips (the documents show
six foreign trips: one to Asia, three to the Middle East and two to
Europe).

The documents obtained by Judicial Watch also disprove another
frequently repeated rumor about Pelosi's travel: that she regularly
flies home to San Francisco in an Air Force C-40, the military
equivalent of a Boeing 737. According to the documents, Pelosi did not
make any domestic trips on a C-40 during the 23-month period from
January 2007 to November 2008. Her trips to San Francisco have all been
on smaller executive aircraft, usually an Air Force C-20 (the
equivalent of a Gulfstream G-3) or a more plush C-37 (a Gulfstream
G-5).

Mar 09, 2009

A top congressional Republican on Sunday criticized President Barack
Obama's expected decision to reverse the Bush administration's limits
on embryonic stem-cell research, calling it a distraction from the
country's economic slump.

"Why are we going and distracting ourselves from the economy? This is
job No. 1. Let's focus on what needs to be done," Rep. Eric Cantor, the
Republican whip in the House of Representatives, told CNN's "State of
the Union."

Eric's right, folks. Saving American lives, putting American scientists to work, leading America toward the cure for myriad mystery diseases for the world, giving Americans a second chance at a healthy life...